Retail Associate

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

Sales Associates are accountable for handling a variety of donated goods, pricing, stocking, and performing cash register transactions. They are required to be customer focused, operate with minimum supervision and understand business demands.

Cashier

• Performs all register transactions accurately
• Maintain sales floor stock level and cash register according to standard
• Follow general housekeeping standards
• Demonstrate competency in pulling, pricing, rotating, sizing, and hanging clothing
• Understand and achieve quotas to meet sales goals
• Follow sales floor procedures, ensure high quality output and take actions to correct quality problems
• Merchandise sales floor when needed

Donation Attendant

• Check, accept, unload and process donations from the customer
• Maintain daily donation records accurately
• Sort and process donations according to current LLGI requirements
• Unload and load trailers and straight trucks according to standards
• Perform opening and closing procedures
• Prepare required records and reports
• Perform janitorial and housekeeping duties as needed

Processor

• Unload, inspect, and sort donated goods
• Grade by using quality specifications, sort into appropriate bins and assign pricing
• Transport stock to and from workstations
• Effectively manage time to ensure that work is completed efficiently and in accordance with production standards
• Assume responsibility and accountability for the completion of job duties and meet production goals
• Contribute to team success by involving others in work processes, decisions and actions

REQUIREMENTS

• Basic math skills
• Work in a light industrial/warehouse environment with exposure to heat and cold
• Subject to exposure to allergens including dirt, dust, mold, metals, rubber, plastics, latex, and pet hair
• Lift or move up to fifty (50) pounds of clothing and house wares safely on and off retail shelving fixtures up to ten (10) feet high, clothing racks four (4) feet high, and z-racks six (6) feet high
• Push and pull z-racks holding up to one-hundred (100) pieces of clothing and weighing a minimum of 150 pounds
• The ability to bend and reach into gaylords five (5) feet high to remove clothing and house wares
• Manual dexterity to fasten and unfasten buttons; snaps and zippers; operate cash registers and tagging guns
• Stand for long periods of time throughout the day
• The ability to perform a combination of tasks for extended periods such as stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting, reaching, carrying, pushing or pulling objects in order to sort and hang clothing, and place housewares on shelves and racks
• Demonstrate visual acuity to evaluate donated items for quality
• The ability to identify smells to evaluate donations for undesirable odors - mold, must, dust, bodily fluids and/or urine.

At Land of Lincoln Goodwill, we offer a variety of benefits to our employees. For more information on what LLGI offers, please click on this link: http://llgi.org/careers/benefits/ . Land of Lincoln Goodwill is also a drug free workplace and equal opportunity employer. All positions offered are subject to a pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check.

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